Essential
$99 USD a month
For sites that need steady upkeep but rarely change.
- Careful software updates
- Backups stored away from your server
- Monitoring with downtime alerts
- A monthly report
- No edit time included
Website maintenance plans and pricing
- Plans
- Essential, Professional, Business
- Per month
- $99, $199, or $349 USD
- Extra hours
- $125 an hour
- Paying yearly
- Two months free
The three website maintenance plans carry the same upkeep and are priced by edit time: Essential is $99 USD a month with none, Professional is $199 with 1 hour of edits, and Business is $349 with 3 hours. Extra hours cost $125 an hour, and paying for a year up front makes two months free.
If you are weighing our website maintenance plans against another provider’s website care plan or maintenance package, compare what each fee covers before you compare the totals. Some providers fold hosting or software licenses into the monthly price; ours never do, so the prices below pay for the work alone. Our guide to what website maintenance costs shows how to line two quotes up, alongside the ranges the market charges.
The three plans, side by side
The card holds every price: the monthly rate in USD, what each plan includes, what it leaves out, and the extra-hours rate.
Professional
Our pick
$199 USD a month
For sites that change a little every month.
- Everything in Essential
- 1 hour of edits a month
Business
$349 USD a month
For stores and complex sites with more to look after.
- Everything in Essential
- 3 hours of edits a month
Extra hours are $125 an hour.
Paying yearly makes two months free: $990, $1,990, and $3,490 a year.
Which kind of site each plan is priced for
Each plan's price assumes a kind of site. If you cannot tell which yours is, the free website health check report names the platform it runs on, which is where the choice starts.
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Essential
$99 USD a month
Priced for a self-hosted site that is finished: the pages are settled, and the occasional change is made by someone on your side or billed by the hour. On a hosted builder it covers too little, because updates and backups are not part of a plan there.
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Professional
$199 USD a month
Priced for a site that changes a little most months, with 1 hour of edits on top of the upkeep. It is also the right plan for a site on Wix, Squarespace, Shopify, or a similar builder, whose platform already looks after its own software.
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Business
$349 USD a month
Priced for stores and complex sites: 3 hours of edits on top of the upkeep, for a site with more moving parts and more to change in a month.
The first month on any plan
Every plan starts the same way, on any platform: the site is read before anything on it is changed.
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Access is arranged first
The plan needs logins for the site and, where it has one, its hosting account; how they are set up depends on what your host allows.
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The site is read, and nothing is changed
The accounts it depends on, the software it runs, and the state of its backups are recorded as they stand.
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Findings arrive rated red, yellow, or green
They are written in plain English, and the report ends with the list of what gets done in the first month.
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Then the routine begins
The upkeep on the card runs from there, with a written report every month.
The terms on every website maintenance plan
Whichever plan you pick, it runs on the same five terms.
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One site per plan
Each plan looks after a single website, with its own review, upkeep, and monthly report.
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Month to month
There is no minimum term. Cancel in any month, and the plan carries on to the end of the period you have already paid.
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No setup fee
The read-only review that opens every plan is part of the monthly price, not a charge of its own.
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Edit time
Counted in 15-minute blocks and renewed each month; hours left unused do not carry over. What counts as an edit is set out under website management services.
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Paid by card
Billed every month, or once a year if you pay up front for two months free.
What work outside a plan costs
A plan's price covers the upkeep and its edit time. Everything else is priced on its own:
- New features and redesigns: each priced as a separate project
- Hacked-site cleanup: quoted per job, since no plan includes it
- Moving hosts: $199 flat for a like-for-like WordPress move, free on a yearly plan, through our website migration services
- Hosting, the domain, and premium licenses: billed to you directly by the companies that sell them, never through a plan
Questions about website maintenance plans
Do unused edit hours roll over to the next month?
No. Edit time belongs to the month it comes with: whatever is left when the month ends lapses, and the next month opens with 1 hour on Professional or 3 on Business.
Does one plan cover more than one website?
No. A plan covers one site, so two sites need two plans, and each is picked for what its own site needs: a busy store and a quiet brochure site can sit on different plans.
What does paying for a year up front include?
Two months free: a year costs $990 on Essential, $1,990 on Professional, and $3,490 on Business. A yearly plan also makes a like-for-like WordPress move to a new host free, which otherwise costs $199 flat.
Can a custom-built site go on a plan?
Yes. The update method described on these pages is for WordPress, but the rest of a plan does not depend on the platform, and backups run wherever the host lets us reach the files and database. A custom site with a lot going on fits Business, the plan meant for complex sites. The free website health check notes what yours is built on.
Related services
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Website maintenance services
The core service: careful updates, backups stored off your server, monitoring with alerts, and a monthly report.
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WordPress maintenance
Core, plugin, and theme updates done in order: export first, try it on a staging copy where your host has one, compare key pages, then go live.
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